On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:47 AM, J.Fine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was surprised to get an exception from this piece of code.
>
> $ cat examples/method_names.py
> from soaplib.service import rpc, DefinitionBase
> from soaplib.serializers.primitive import String
> from soaplib.wsgi import Application
>
> def doit(self):
> return 'this is a string'
>
>
> class Tiny(DefinitionBase):
>
> # Unpack the rpc decorator.
> wibble = rpc(_returns=String)(doit)
> wobble = rpc(_returns=String)(doit)
>
> application = Application([Tiny], 'namespace')
>
>
> And I was surprised by the exception I got. How does soaplib know that my
> function was called doit? And should it know?
>
This is how soaplib works. Soaplib introspects the methods decorated
with @soap, @rpc or, @document. It crams these web-methods into a
public_methods dictionary. Also, it uses the meta-data attached to
the methods via the decorators to generate XML Schemata and the WSDL.
The same process creates the bindings that allow a service to pass a
soap request to correct web-method and return a soap response.
> BTW, Tiny has attributes wibble and wobble (which I do expect). I was
> expecting my SOAP service to have wibble and wobble methods, but perhaps it
> has a doit.
>
You are correct, it has doit().
If you need to override your methods you could try something like this:
class Tiny(DefinitionBase):
def do_it(self):
return "this is a string"
@rpc(_returns=String)
def wibble(self):
return self.do_it()
@rpc(_returns=String)
def wobble(self):
return self.do_it()
Your use case certainly is logical and one that I would like soaplib
to support in the near-future. I'll add it to the wish list for a
future release.
Cheers
Chris
>
> Jonathan
>
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